Stranger than fiction runs the life story of G.M. Jackson, Wake County farmer, who a coroner’s jury Tuesday found slew the wife and daughter for whom he had provided in a will that was provided almost as the verdict was returned.
The coroner’s jury found that Jackson had shot himself to death in a fit of temporary insanity after he had slain his wife and daughter on last Saturday morning. The jury did not have before it the will that was made less than two years ago in which Jackon left his estate of 175 acres of land to his wife and three daughters.
The will would not have been received in evidence by the coroner’s jury, but it bore mute testimony as it lay on the table in the office of Vitruvius Royster, clerk of Wake County Superior Court, to family devotion that was in striking contrast to the verdict the jury returned.
When the crops were laid in July of 1924, Jackson called in M.J. Carlton, a magistrate, and he and his wife carefully made disposition of the estate. Three daughters there were, and none were forgotten, but the parents were to hold the estate during their natural lives. If the husband lived longer than his wife, then she should hold the estate until his death, and if the wife lived longer, then she was to hold it until her death.
From the front page of the Zebulon Record, Friday, Feb. 26, 1926
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